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London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1901 1st Ltd Ed. Signed, 535/1000.. Large hardback, 12.5 x 10 inches. In full vellum cover, with elaborate gilt paneled decoration to front board and decorative gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to cover. Silk fasteners lost from edge of boards. Some minor darkening to endpapers. No previous owners inscriptions. Signed and numbered opposite half title by Illustrator Hugh Thomson. Some light foxing spots to frontis plate, some handling marks to title page and illustrations list. Else pages all very clean and tight throughout. Plates all very clean and bright. Page edge uncut/rough. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 198pp. Illustrated with a Pictorial title-page, and 18 mounted colour plates, each with a tissue guard with b&w drawing & caption. With b&w illustrations in text. Barrie’s play set in a country town during the Napoleonic Wars with lots of maiden… Read More

London, Cecil Palmer, 1928 1st edition,. Hardback, 7 x 5 ins. Hard card covers with salmon pink paper cover lettered in black. In good condition. Boards and spine faded, mid-length split to paper at spine, with small tear at top end. Stamped postcard loose in front dated 1935. Author’s signature to title page, and dedicatory inscription to endpaper “Helen N. Solly, from W.G.H., July 1939.” A couple of minor cracks between gatherings, mild foxing to pages throughout. 103pp. + 1pp cat.

London, Cassell & Co. 1891 1st. Ltd 103/250.. Folio. Tall hardback, 13.5 x 10.25 inches. Quarterbound with vellum to spine and illustrated green paper to boards. Decorative endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to cover, rubbing and some small chips to paper on edges, corners bumped and slightly chipped. A couple of small nicks to spine. Some small minor spots and handling marks to pages else illustrations bright and clean. Bookseller label at front “Garton Freestone, The Poultry, Nottingham.” Else a very good clean and tight copy. 40 beautiful full-page colour illustrations by Walter Crane. 40pp. 1pp Adverts at rear. Large Paper edition.

Nicholson and Watson. 1946 1st.. 7.5 x 5.0 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition With very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Handling marks to back. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges and endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 84 pp. The adventures of a boy called Henery. A book for children with action in Kensington Gardens with Peter Pan and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Scarce with dustwrapper.

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Hardback, 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine andprinted black & red decoration and lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to covers. Pages slightly tanned, some minor handling marks, marks and small hole to p.170. Else a very clean and tight copy. 330pp.6pp. cat.

London, Chatto & Windus 1897. Hardback, 8vo. 8 x 5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front corner. In very good condition, some fading and darkening to cloth with some handling marks and soiling to rear. Contemporary endpapers, orig. endpapers and cat. slightly darkened. Some minor foxing spots to pages else a clean and tight copy. 311pp. 32pp. cat.

Thomas Nelson and Sons. n.d. ca 1920.. Size 5.0 x 7.25 inches. In beige cloth covers with dark brown lettering to spine and front with oval colour plate to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to back. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Prize bookplate to front endpaper, dated 1922. Else a clean and tight copy. 238pp. With colour plates. Adventure story set in Australia.

London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd. 1905. Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. Red cloth with decorative gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Some minor fading to spine. Some minor rubbing to cloth on corners and ends of spine. Bookplate to front endpaper “Berkeley Cole Wilmot Williams of Herringston.” Partial crack between front endpapers. Some minor light foxing to free side. Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 421pp. Illustrated with 30 full-page B&W photo plates.

The Folio Society. 1997 1st thus.. Size 5.5 x 9.0 inches. In illustrated green cloth covers with black and yellow lettering and decor. Redd endpapers. In green cloth illustrated slip case. In very good condition in very good slip case. (SC has one very small mark and a few light scuffs) Inside very clean and tight. 206pp With b/w illustrations by Geoff Grandfield.